An exhibition of found objects transcending their forms through time and circumstance.
APRIL 5-7, 2024
516 W 26th St Suite 315 NYC
ART WITHOUT INTENT
A “found object” is something out of control.
Age vandalized its appearance. Circumstance hijacked its function. Obscurity overwrote its significance. Tearing through time, ravaged by the random, a found object breaks from the design of its creator to emerge today as something liberated from prescribed form and meaning.
Although it’s man-made, it is now alien to us. Although it’s here and now, it abides elsewhere in time and space. The found object is an illegible, unknowable thing, out of reach even when in hand.
Here we may find art without intent.
Transformed physically and contextually, a found object sometimes packs the same aesthetic and conceptual punch of conventional art. But without artistic motive nor objective meaning, it must lie in wait to ambush an imagination. As old as human consciousness itself, our reflexive appreciation of found objects is an artistic muscle latent within us all.
Art without intent ennobles the random, celebrates the anonymous, and embraces the subjective, empowering individuals to see art where they may least expect to find it.
THE SHOW
In its third year, the 2024 Found Object Show will take place on April 5–7 in the Chelsea Gallery District of NYC. The unpredictable and diverse material is presented unaltered, each piece offered as-found by exhibitors. All of the objects are available for sale.
General Admission $10. Purchase tickets online or at the door. Visitors of all ages are welcome (16 and under free). Advance tickets recommended.
Learn how to join us for a special show preview as a Friend of Found Object.
See a virtual tour of Found Object 2023. In 2024, the show expands to twice the size with the addition of many new exhibitors.